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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 16, 1995Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 5:59 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Laurens County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 256 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1173 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery, Mitchell67 min
Jul 16, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford63 min
Jul 16, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee59 min
Jul 16, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens69 min
Jul 16, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg64 min
Jul 16, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville55 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.